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Background

I use chrome custom search engines very often (i wrote a post about how to copy search engines from one profile to another here).

Problem

I recently switched from github to gitlab, and so i have like 50 custom search engines that began with something like github.com/repo_name that i know what to change to something like gitlab.com/repo_name..

I know that the custom search engines are stored inside

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile/Web Data

and according to my other post, if i simply copied and pasted that between profiles, things would work fine.. however if i go inside that web data file now (which is an sqlite file) and manually replace the strings, and copy it back.. it simply gets overwritten by the original search engines.. any idea how to fix this?

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enter image description hereturns out the answer is logical. You see before you try to "game" the system you must understand it first.. when you go to google settings, you can click on advanced sync settings and select choose what to sync and then uncheck settings.. in that case you leave your google account vulnerable to have it settings overwritten..

after that you can follow the steps of copying web data and that's it!

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